Filter News
Area of Research
News Topics
- (-) Nanotechnology (3)
- (-) Neutron Science (9)
- (-) Physics (8)
- (-) Polymers (1)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (4)
- (-) Transformational Challenge Reactor (3)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (11)
- Advanced Reactors (4)
- Artificial Intelligence (5)
- Big Data (6)
- Bioenergy (6)
- Biology (2)
- Biomedical (10)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Chemical Sciences (2)
- Clean Water (2)
- Computer Science (19)
- Coronavirus (11)
- Cybersecurity (2)
- Energy Storage (7)
- Environment (8)
- Exascale Computing (2)
- Fusion (9)
- Grid (3)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Isotopes (3)
- Machine Learning (2)
- Materials Science (11)
- Mathematics (2)
- Mercury (1)
- Microscopy (3)
- Nuclear Energy (17)
- Quantum Science (6)
- Security (2)
- Space Exploration (1)
- Summit (7)
- Transportation (5)
Media Contacts
Marcel Demarteau is director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For topics from nuclear structure to astrophysics, he shapes ORNL’s physics research agenda.
As ORNL’s fuel properties technical lead for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Co-Optimization of Fuel and Engines, or Co-Optima, initiative, Jim Szybist has been on a quest for the past few years to identify the most significant indicators for predicting how a fuel will perform in engines designed for light-duty vehicles such as passenger cars and pickup trucks.
A multi-institutional team, led by a group of investigators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been studying various SARS-CoV-2 protein targets, including the virus’s main protease. The feat has earned the team a finalist nomination for the Association of Computing Machinery, or ACM, Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research.
Popular wisdom holds tall, fast-growing trees are best for biomass, but new research by two U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories reveals that is only part of the equation.
Rufus Ritchie came from Kentucky coal country, a region not known for producing physicists.
Neutron scattering at ORNL has shown that cholesterol stiffens simple lipid membranes, a finding that may help us better understand the functioning of human cells.
About 60 years ago, scientists discovered that a certain rare earth metal-hydrogen mixture, yttrium, could be the ideal moderator to go inside small, gas-cooled nuclear reactors.
Scientists at ORNL and the University of Nebraska have developed an easier way to generate electrons for nanoscale imaging and sensing, providing a useful new tool for material science, bioimaging and fundamental quantum research.